Deerfield Studies Parking Ban

April 13, 1986|By Todd Nelson, Staff Writer

DEERFIELD BEACH — Recreational vehicles, which officials say sometimes pose a safety hazard to other vehicles, would be banned from parking along the beach except in designated spaces under a proposed ordinance.

Mayor Jean Robb said the large vehicles often block the view of automobile drivers trying to back out of adjacent parking spaces on Southeast 21st Avenue. If city commissioners approve the proposal, the city would join Fort Lauderdale in banning the vehicles from beachfront parking spaces. Pompano Beach allows the vehicles to use parking spaces along the beach.

City Attorney Andrew Maurodis said he had almost completed writing the ordinance, except for compiling a list of where the vehicles would be allowed to park. A handful of spaces south of the Cove Beach Club, 500 SE 21st Ave., that could accommodate them have been suggested as one possible site, he said.